Ideal Midwest

About Ideal Midwest

Storms reach Clinton out of the open southwest, over the Illinois line and across country with nothing tall enough to slow them down. Ideal Midwest watches that horizon all winter and moves before the town does — lots opened, drives cut through, walkways cleared and banks hauled back so nothing narrows up by February. Snow removal in Rock County is a night trade, run on radar and coffee and finished while the streetlights are still the brightest thing going. By the time the first cars turn in, the pavement is dark and wet and the day can start on schedule. That quiet handoff is the entire point of it.